For what it's worth, a reporter named Joe at the
press conference tried to bait Whisenhunt into revealing something about a DRC trade possibility by asking him (at 11:12), "Is it hard, if you have to part with a player like DRC, is it hard, but, knowing that the return can be greater for the long run?"
Whisenhunt responded, "
I don't have an option like that that I'm facing right now so it's kinda hard for me to answer that question. That's all been speculation. I haven't said anything like that or even talked about that. So I don't know where that came from. It did not come from us. So
that's not even been a thought in my mind." He went on to comment more generally on the issue of losing players that he "had a lot of respect for, who have played for you" - "you have to do that in this business." He referred to the players who had left last offseason.
Now of course there are plenty of reasons why Whisenhunt might have responded in this fashion, but my impression has been that Whis tends to play things close to the vest or speak in coach-speak that doesn't reveal much - but i don't recall him saying things that were deliberately misleading (e.g. regarding the kinds of players the team was looking at in the draft, etc.).
If the Cardinals were to end up trading DRC for Kolb, his statement that parting with DRC is not even an option that he's facing and not even a thought in his mind could only be interpreted as a bald-faced lie. If Whis had skipped those comments and gone right to the part about it being part of the business to part with good players, i'd find it easier to believe that trading DRC is a possibility, but from listening to his response, i don't get that impression.
Or maybe that's just wishful thinking - i'm pretty firmly in the "don't give up too much for Kolb" camp. In fact, i'm pretty firmly in the "i'd rather have Orton than Kolb even if the price were the same" camp.
The next day or two should certainly be interesting!
...dave
